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Efforts to transform Africa’s creative industries into a stronger economic growth engine gained fresh momentum in Lagos as policymakers, financiers and industry leaders used the opening of CANEX WKND 2026 to advance discussions on financing, investment and market expansion across the continent’s cultural and creative sectors.

In 2020, Zoweh Global Consult published its first survey of coaching in Ghana and six years on, our follow-up asks how far the profession has travelled.

The European Union-funded Gold for Good (G4G) Project, implemented by Coginta, has launched three baseline studies on artisanal and small-scale gold mining (ASM) in Ghana’s Savannah Region, highlighting critical governance, environmental and livelihood challenges that require coordinated action to make the sector safer, fairer and more sustainable.

There are some reforms whose significance is not fully appreciated when they are introduced. They appear modest at the time, only to reveal their transformative power decades later.

With the enactment of the Ghana Investment Promotion Authority Act, 2026 (Act 1173) (the “GIPA Act”), the Development Finance Institutions Act, 2020 (Act 1032) (the “DFI Act”), the Public Private Partnership Act, 2020 (Act 1039) (the “PPP Act”) and the 24-Hour Economy Authority Act, 2026 (Act 1164) (the “24-Hour Economy Act”), the country has assembled a legal architecture capable of supporting a diversified industrial economy. Yet capital remains the binding constraint for manufacturers, agro-processors and infrastructure developers who need it.

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) have been encouraged to adopt proactive risk management practices as a critical step toward building resilient, sustainable businesses capable of withstanding unforeseen challenges.

Imagine a Ghanaian farmer financing a warehouse through small digital investments, or a young investor purchasing a fraction of a government security. Tokenisation could make such transactions possible.

Africa’s food demand is projected to rise sharply over the coming decades. By 2050, and with a population of 2.4 billion, the continent will have doubled its food demand. Meeting this demand will require increased production, but more importantly, it will need efficient markets and greater investment across agricultural value chains.